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A Definition Is Nothing Else But An Explication Of The Meaning Of A Word, By Words Whose Meaning Is Already Known. Hence It Is Evident That Every Word Cannot Be Defined; For The Definition Must Consist Of Words; And There Could Be No Definition, If There Were Not Words Previously Understood Without Definition.

It Is The Invaluable Merit Of The Great Basle Mathematician Leonard Euler, To Have Freed The Analytical Calculus From All Geometric Bounds, And Thus To Have Established Analysis As An Independent Science, Which From His Time On Has Maintained An Unchallenged Leadership In The Field Of Mathematics.

And, If We Have Any Evidence That The Wisdom Which Formed The Plan Is In The Man, We Have The Very Same Evidence, That The Power Which Executed It Is In Him Also.

It Appears Evident, Therefore, That Those Actions Only Can Truly Be Called Virtuous, And Deserving Of Moral Approbation, Which The Agent Believed To Be Right, And To Which He Was Influenced, More Or Less, By That Belief.

When We Contemplate The World Of Epicurus, And Conceive The Universe To Be A Fortuitous Jumble Of Atoms, There Is Nothing Grand In This Idea. The Clashing Of Atoms By Blind Chance Has Nothing In It Fit To Raise Our Conceptions, Or To Elevate The Mind. But The Regular Structure Of A Vast System Of Beings, Produced By Creating Power, And Governed By The Best Laws Which Perfect Wisdom And Goodness Could Contrive, Is A Spectacle Which Elevates The Understanding, And Fills The Soul With Devout Admiration.